Hi, I’m Michelle Chiu


Senior product designer at PayPal, freelance design lead with 8 YoE, and beauty/fashion events creative strategist. Previously, I’ve designed at Coinbase, Meta Creative X, MongoDB, and partnered with brands such as Four Seasons, Marie Claire, and Mejuri. My work has reached ~3B+ users globally and contributed to ~$50M+ in funding and revenue.

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Clients/Experience: Authoritative, Alta, ARI, Axiom, Beam, BuzzFeed, Cherry Pick, Coinbase, Daimo, DoorDash, Easy Labs, Four Seasons, Frog Design, Gensmo, Instagram, Kleiner Perkins, Kodely, Marie Claire, Marie Claire Arabia, Megapot, Mejuri, Meta Creative X, MongoDB, PayPal, Peanie, Pistachio, Prism, Rarible, Rubi, Shibuya, Wish, Youvoya

Awards, Recognition, & Other Highlights:
Adobe Design Achievement Awards Recipient [Link]
Bestfolios Editor’s Pick Featured Site
Cartier x RedBoxMe Invited Community Member [Link]
Design Nation Conference Selected Attendee [Link]
EDGE NYFW Content Studio Manager [Link]
Emboldly (Nonprofit) NYC Events Lead [Link]
Facebook GH Scholarship Recipient (1 of 25 worldwide)
Four Seasons Styling Assistant [Link]
Girls Into VC Fellow & Former Newsletter Editor [Link]
Hexagon UX Mentorship Program Selected Participant
IDEO CoLab Makeathon Selected Participant [Link]
Interior New York Fashion Week Intern [Link]
Kleiner Perkins Fellows Program Alumni Interviewer (2x)
Kleiner Perkins Engineering Fellow [Link]
Marie Claire Arabia Photography Assistant [Link]
Medium Top Writer in Design (225K+ views) [Link]
Mejuri Brand Ambassador (4 yrs) [Link]
Mercury Spheres Scholarship Recipient [Link]
Monday Girl Social Club Community Member [Link]
Rarible Ex-Editorial Writer (front-page feature [Link]
Slow Ventures Design & AI Dinner Invited Guest [Link]
TechCrunch Disrupt Scholarship Attendee [Link]
The Council Angel Investing Community Member [Link]
Unsplash Featured Photographer (5.8M+ views)
Wall of Portfolios Editor’s Pick Featured Website [Link]
Women’s Creatives Dinner Inaugural Guest [Link]

ARI (NDA)


AI personal styling platform focused on the future of human self-expression founded by Lior Cole (global IMG model and AI engineer featured in BBC, Fast Company, Loewe, Louis Vuitton, Proenza Schouler, Vogue, etc). As a recognized voice in AI and fashion, Lior has also spoken at Christie’s Art + Tech Summit, Cornell, Harvard, NYFW, NYU, and SXSW as a guest lecturer, keynote speaker, and panelist.

I helped ARI articulate its unique brand market position to attract and support new partnerships through visual storytelling—culminating in a slidedeck with graphic animations illustrating our mission. This project was completed in partnership with Manya Jain (co-founder of Threads of Tech) and Lior through storyboarding and iterative design cycles.

AI Tools
Communication Design
Deck Design
Motion Design
Visual Design